This diagram shows how every indication of the seventeen squares is broken up by the removal of seven of the asterisks which mark their corners.

Those surrounded by circles are to be removed.

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No. CXII.—A CHINESE PUZZLE

The dotted lines on the triangular figure show how a piece of cardboard cut to the shape of Fig. 1 can be divided into three pieces, and rearranged so that these form a star shaped as in Fig. 2.

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No. CXIII.—FIRESIDE FUN

To solve this puzzle slip the first coin or counter from A to D, then the others in turn from F to A, from C to F, from H to C, from E to H, from B to E, from G to B, and place the last on G. It can only be done by a sequence of this sort, in which each starting point is the finish of the next move.